Sunday, February 1, 2009

How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue It? Randy Komisar

Thanks to Parul for pointing out this site. An insightful five minutes with Randy Komisar: "My career makes no sense in the windshield. It only makes sense in the rear view mirror. That applies to lots and lots of people in their careers."

Special Thanks

"Few of us have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation" - Robert Kennedy

About the 2010 Program

The Startup Leadership Program's mission is to groom the next generation of startup CEOs and create a network that will have a significant impact on the local community and maybe even the global economy in the coming decades.

"Fellows" spend six to nine months in a rigorous entrepreneurial-CEO training program skills program that combines (1) mentoring from successful entrepreneurs; (2) extensive participation in the active VC, corporate, and entrepreneur network of its partners; (3) coaching and professional development (4) fireside chats with entrepreneurs and VCs and (5) several skill-building workshops. Each Fellow also gets extensive exposure to , including mentoring seed-stage start-ups, and guidance from other top-tier entrepreneurial organizations such as TiE and China Entrepreneurs organizations supporting the SLP network to develop a new business idea.

32 accomplished young individuals graduated in the Class of 2010 programs in Boston & Silicon Valley, and 140 joined the Class of 2011 in six cities.